My camera battery began to die on me tonight, usually it lasts a whole six on one charge, but I've taken so many pictures of Martyn that it's feeling the pace - tonight I had to snap him pushing off Franco, in the derny.

And when the race did get start Hoy was unable to lead from the front as he likes, instead settling in behind the leaders as the derny, a motorbike that guides the cyclists round the track, picked up speed.